2 hrs ago | The Kansas City Star
Violence in Mexico curtailing faith-based missions
John and Wanda Casias knew the risks of being missionaries in one of Mexico's most violent, cartel-dominated regions, their children say, but they refused to curtail their work and instead put their ministry ahead of their safety.The couple's slaying this week during a home invasion comes as missionary groups are rethinking how they prepare their ... (more)
6 hrs ago | Cortez Journal News
Titans clash in Mexico's fight over monopolies
In recent weeks, the corporate titans have run full-page ads accusing each other of lying, cheating and conspiring to overcharge customers, allegations often bolstered by official studies finding that Mexicans pay far more than they should for many services because major businesses lack strong competitors.
7 hrs ago | Austin American-Statesman
World Digest: Over 110 missing after New Guinea ferry sinks; Mexico...
Community Briefing: 38 DWI arrests made in Austin as part of New Year's no-refusal weekend; man receives life sentence for fifth DWI conviction PORT MORESBY - Rescuers battling big waves and strong winds have pulled nearly 250 people from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank.
11 hrs ago | CNN
Cartels target Juarez police, officials say
Julian Juarez Baena, a police officer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, had just finished his shift.
15 hrs ago | Newkerala.com
21 rescued from torture and forced labor at Mexico City rehab center
MEXICO CITY : Four people have been arrested after 21 patients at a Mexico City rehab center were rescued after being tortured and constrained to forced labor, local authorities said on Thursday.
Official: Mexican army sends more troops to west
The Mexican government is sending thousands of additional troops to the violence-stricken western state of Michoacan, a military official said Thursday.
Fugitive from Fla. arrested at Arizona border
The U.S. Marshals Service says 62-year-old Stephen Ray Douglass was taken into custody Wednesday at the San Luis port of entry in southwestern Arizona.
Seized cash triggers political furor in Mexico
The discovery in Mexico of almost $2 million cash in the luggage of a state government official has triggered a round of mud-slinging in the run-up to the presidential election in July.
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In North Mexico City the two Texas missionaries were murdered
Mexico City : On Tuesday in Mexico both the husband and wife with the ties to the North Texas was found to be murdered.
US missionary couple killed in Mexico
A missionary couple from the United States were found dead in their home near the violence-wracked north Mexican city of Monterrey, the US embassy and a Mexican official said on Wednesday.
Mexico: suspects tried twice to rescue Gadhafi son
In this undated file photo made available on Sunday Sept. 25, 2011, al-Saadi Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches a military exercise by the elite military unit commanded by his brother, Khamis, in Zlitan, Libya.
Juarez police leave their homes after 5 are slain
Every police officer in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has been ordered to leave home and stay in a hotel after the killing of five officers by a local drug cartel.
Mexico town takes a monetary path less traveled
Organizers in this verdant hill town in Veracruz state have coaxed a tiny economic experiment on the citizenry: They created an alternative local currency.
Canadian woman jailed in Mexico over Gaddafi escape plot claims abuse
Saadi Gaddafi, the third son of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, reacts to a question at a news conference in Sydney in this February 7, 2005 file photo.
2 plead guilty in Brownsville to exporting ammo
Prosecutors in South Texas say two men have pleaded guilty over the illegal export of about 3,000 rounds of ammunition to Mexico.
Woman pleads guilty in arson death
Shray L. Thompson, 35, is scheduled to be sentenced on charges of murder, arson and tampering with a witness at 1 p.m. Feb.
Narco Blog: Detained Zetas Cartel Member Says He Killed 75 in Mexico
A suspected member of the Los Zetas drug cartel was arrested and confessed to 75 murders, officials in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon said Monday.
Mexico pols trade barbs over $1.9M found in bags
Political rivals slammed each other Tuesday over $1.9 million in wads of cash found stuffed into a state official's luggage at a central Mexico airport.
Mexican youths abducted by drug gangs, forced into lives of crime: rights groups
Raul Hernandez Lechuga aka "EL Lucky", is presented to the press along with other alleged member of drugs cartel "Los Zetas", in Mexico City, on December 13, 2011.
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